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Alan Bork: respected figure makes a welcome return to the business |
BELGIUM. Macquarie Airports-led Brussels International Airport Company has named Alan Bork as Director Commercial Development.
Bork has a long-time background in the airport industry working for a number of years with Copenhagen Airport as Director of Retail Development. In recent years he has managed his own consultancy advising airports throughout the world on commercial development.
He has also put together the ambitous Atea City International ‘Requests for Proposals” (RFP) project at next month’s Trinity Forum – a hypothetical RFP for a hypothetical airport designed to encourage new vision in airport commercial thinking and contested by two teams made up from leading industry figures.
As part of his prolonged and proactive industry contribution, he was instrumental in setting up the Nordic Travel Retail Group – the industry association organising airports, travel retail operators and supplying companies in the Nordic and Baltic regions.
Luc Van den Bossche, CEO of Brussels International Airport Company, welcomed his arrival to Brussels’ management team. “Through the past decades, airport retail has become a highly specialized business. Alan’s broad experience in this field will be invaluable in developing the airport’s commercial performance. We must continue to provide our passengers with the best possible commercial product in the market, and ensure we meet the needs of our customers.”
Bork said: “I am very happy to be joining Brussels Airport and Macquarie Airports in a period where exciting times and great challenges lay ahead. Brussels Airport is a great airport repeatedly rated in the top-five category. I will look forward to be working with my new colleagues, as well as the many business partners, to make Brussels Airport even better.”
Comment: This is an excellent appointment by Macquarie. Alan Bork has an unusually keen insight into airport commercial revenues and the industry was a major loser when he announced earlier this year he was taking up a post in another sector. Macquarie, needing a top figure to develop the commercial side of its new investment in Belgium, has chosen well.
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